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Hidden in National Weather Service forecast: P-L-E-A-S-E-P-A-Y-U-S

By Greg Botelho, CNN

October 4, 2013 -- Updated 2323 GMT (0723 HKT)

The National Weather Service's forecast for Alaska contained a cryptic message, deciphered by using the first letter of each line of text.

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• A National Weather Service's Anchorage office forecast may have a subliminal message
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• Meteorologists decline to comment on the message
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(CNN) -- Sometimes, it pays to read between the lines.

At least that may be the message --and, more accurately, the hope -- of workers at the National Weather Service office in Anchorage, Alaska.

The message can be found in an official forecast put out at 5 a.m. (9 a.m. ET) that seems, at first glance, routine with its discussion of air pressure, wind speeds and weather systems.

But if you line up the first letters of each word from top-to-bottom in the forecast, under the heading "Analysis and Upper levels," there's something else there: P-L-E-A-S-E-P-A-Y-U-S.